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Best Crime Fiction

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,224 members

199 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88, jackofquills

2

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,263 members

1,749 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

3

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,331 members

495 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

4

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,251 members

911 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

5

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,832 members

614 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

6

by Gillian Flynn

22,199 members

1,544 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

7

by Wilkie Collins

10,836 members

251 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

8

by Raymond Chandler

10,321 members

284 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

9

by Patricia Cornwell

7,181 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

10

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,939 members

226 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

11

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,476 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

12

True History of the Kelly Gang

4,254 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

13

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

by Agatha Christie

4,465 members

55 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

14

Death in Holy Orders

3,691 members

55 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

15

Knots and Crosses

3,620 members

132 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

16

Before the Frost

by Henning Mankell

2,601 members

61 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

17

by Mark Billingham

1,294 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

18

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12,620 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

19

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,247 members

114 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

20

by Kate Atkinson

4,374 members

219 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

21

Presumed Innocent

4,326 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

22

4,465 members

158 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

23

Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,950 members

94 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

24

by Agatha Christie

3,656 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

25

The Keeper of Lost Causes

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

3,646 members

217 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

26

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,471 members

132 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

27

The Man from Beijing

by Henning Mankell

2,449 members

116 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

28

by Agatha Christie

2,977 members

71 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

29

Shroud for a Nightingale

2,190 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

30

The Troubled Man

by Henning Mankell

2,256 members

89 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

31

2,502 members

148 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

32

The Virgin in the Ice

by Ellis Peters

2,076 members

48 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

33

The Leper of Saint Giles

by Ellis Peters

1,968 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

34

by Josephine Tey

1,899 members

76 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

35

by Dick Francis

1,538 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

36

by Arnaldur Indriðason

1,466 members

85 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

37

The Remorseful Day

by Colin Dexter

1,486 members

18 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

38

by Dick Francis

1,348 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

39

A Conspiracy of Faith

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

1,715 members

103 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

40

1,991 members

87 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

41

by Arnaldur Indridason

1,325 members

69 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

42

The Devotion of Suspect X

by Keigo Higashino

1,847 members

240 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

43

The Broken Shore

by Peter Temple

1,189 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

44

1,055 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

45

A Judgement in Stone

by Ruth Rendell

1,056 members

32 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

46

Forty Words for Sorrow

918 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

47

1,335 members

86 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

48

by Mark Billingham

769 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

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May 2017
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